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Here Are the Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies of October

Here Are the Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies of October

Featuring W.G. Sebald, Billy Porter, Oscar Wilde, and More

By Book Marks | October 27, 2021

Teju Cole on the Wonder of Epiphanic Writing

Teju Cole on the Wonder of Epiphanic Writing

Or: How Authors “Evoke the Overspilling World”

By Teju Cole | October 26, 2021

Terry Tempest Williams on the Loves (and Appetites) of the Great Jim Harrison

Terry Tempest Williams on the Loves (and Appetites) of the Great Jim Harrison

“He was kind and gracious and terrifyingly astute in all manner of his perceptions.”

By Terry Tempest Williams | October 26, 2021

How to Write an Obituary For Your Mother

How to Write an Obituary For Your Mother

Jenny Qi on the Limits of Language in the Face of Tragedy

By Jenny Qi | October 26, 2021

Unlearning the Sunk Cost Fallacy, in Writing and in Love

Unlearning the Sunk Cost Fallacy, in Writing and in Love

Hazel Hayes on the Power of Walking Away

By Hazel Hayes | October 25, 2021

Mapping Exile: A Writer’s Story of Growing Up Stateless in Post-Gulf War Kuwait

Mapping Exile: A Writer’s Story of Growing Up Stateless in Post-Gulf War Kuwait

Mona Kareem on the Heaviness of Absence and Those We Leave Behind

By Mona Kareem | October 25, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Mary Gaitskill on Borrowing From Real Life in Writing (and the Dreams That Guided Her)

By Mary Gaitskill | October 22, 2021

Finding My Voice Through the Rage of Punk Music

By Amy Lee Lillard | October 22, 2021

Who Really Has the Authority to Write About the Pandemic?

By Selina Mahmood | October 22, 2021

Shadow City, Invisible City: Walking Through an Ever-Changing Kabul

Shadow City, Invisible City: Walking Through an Ever-Changing Kabul

Taran Khan on Life in an Uncertain Afghanistan

By Taran Khan | October 21, 2021

TaraShea Nesbit on Reckoning With Ghosts, and Returning to the Same Story, Again and Again

TaraShea Nesbit on Reckoning With Ghosts, and Returning to the Same Story, Again and Again

“There is a backward-looking thing in all good stories and essays: a haunting.”

By TaraShea Nesbit | October 21, 2021

Rethinking Preschool in a Pandemic Teacher Shortage

Rethinking Preschool in a Pandemic Teacher Shortage

Dayneé Alejandra Rosales on Supporting Educators

By Dayneé Alejandra Rosales | October 21, 2021

The Painful Language of an Ultrarunner’s Body on a Sweltering Day

The Painful Language of an Ultrarunner’s Body on a Sweltering Day

J.M. Thompson Maps the Intensity and Freedom of a Very Long Mountain Run

By J.M. Thompson | October 20, 2021

The Last-Resort Move That Made My Students Smile

The Last-Resort Move That Made My Students Smile

Frances Starn on the Story of Bringing a Bearded Dragon to Class

By Frances Starn | October 20, 2021

White Men, Land, and Literature: The Making (and Unmaking) of an American Pastoral

White Men, Land, and Literature: The Making (and Unmaking) of an American Pastoral

Brad Kessler on Settler Narratives and the Violence That Haunts American Land and Literature

By Brad Kessler | October 20, 2021

Writing Through Trauma, Past and Present: On the Legacies of Catholic Ireland

Writing Through Trauma, Past and Present: On the Legacies of Catholic Ireland

Elaine Feeney Considers the Emotional Journey to Her Novel, As You Were

By Elaine Feeney | October 20, 2021

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